'Began' in the Bible

Then the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to his needs.

From that time Jesus began to preach this message: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near."

Then he began to teach them by saying:

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.

And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

he said, "Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep." And they began making fun of him.

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.

Then he came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, "Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?

he took the seven loaves and the fish, and after giving thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, who then gave them to the crowds.

So they began to discuss this among themselves, saying, "It is because we brought no bread."

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: "God forbid, Lord! This must not happen to you!"

As he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents was brought to him.

When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner,

From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

They became greatly distressed and each one began to say to him, "Surely not I, Lord?"

At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, "I do not know the man!" At that moment a rooster crowed.

In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Then they went to Capernaum. When the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

He came and raised her up by gently taking her hand. Then the fever left her and she began to serve them.

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child's father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. Many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did he get these ideas? And what is this wisdom that has been given to him? What are these miracles that are done through his hands?

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So they served the crowd.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

So they began to discuss with one another about having no bread.

Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

He spoke openly about this. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

Peter began to speak to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you!"

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

Then he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

Jesus began to say to them, "Watch out that no one misleads you.

When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, "Prophesy!" The guards also took him and beat him.

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, "This man is one of them."

Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, "I do not know this man you are talking about!"

Then the chief priests began to accuse him repeatedly.

Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom.

They began to salute him: "Hail, king of the Jews!"

Now the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they began to wonder why he was delayed in the holy place.

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day's journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by all.

Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, "What's happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has come to help his people!"

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this, who even forgives sins?"

And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.

And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

Then two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with him.

Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.'

They will say, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'

Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again -- he was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,

Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

So Judas agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus when no crowd was present.

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them

So they left the town and began coming to him.

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?